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Impact of the Black Plague on Chivalry, Feudalism

died within a span of just 18 months.7 The following examination of literature focuses on how the Black Plague affected feudal soc...

Literature and Film Related to Rural Life

the Grapes of Wrath the family is mobile, that is really not by choice and even when they face such a hardship, they remain close....

Grow Your Own and Bend It Like Beckham: Two Films about Prejudice

prejudice is defined as "a judgment or opinion formed before the facts are known; preconceived idea." It is a belief that may or m...

Cinematic Narrative in Pulp Fiction and Citizen Kane

We note he grows to be a gregarious individual who seems driven to succeed in unusual ways, always seeking some adventure and some...

Comparing Novel and Film Versions of The Color Purple

in particular is feminism and its religious heterodoxy" (12). An examination of the film and novel amply supports this observation...

Actor John Travolta

time Travolta began doing the leaps and pirouettes on the flashing dance floor in Saturday Night Fever, he was already a veteran a...

Turtles Can Fly, An Iraqi Film

dealers in the nearby town. Hyenkov refuses to be intimidated by Satellite and head butts him, knocking him to the ground, making ...

Censorship of Pornography and Violence

they begin to see that as normal and it promotes many ideals that are not good for the morality of any individual. They put sex in...

Empire of Faith; the Early 20th Century in the Middle East

has made it and its faith-the overwhelming number of Middle Easterners are Muslim-a center of world attention for decades. This pa...

Othello on the Stage and on Film

the others are Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear and all of them display a writer at the height of his powers. They have been popular ...

A Beautiful Look at Schizophrenia

niece Marcee, a sweet little girl he absolutely adores (Howard, 2001). But none of these people is real; they are the creations of...

Cinematic Comparison of 2001 A Space Odyssey and The Matrix

definitely postmodern? In some ways, that appears to be true, but in other ways that may not be the case at all. 2001 began with...

The Blair Witch Project Film, the Newtonian Revolution, and Phaedo by Plato

In six pages this report examines individual understanding of the world as considered in Plato's Phaedo, in the scientific inquiry...

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

the reader imagines and sees through the eyes of the character is a world with shocking parallels to modern humanitys own question...

Media Technology Pioneer Lee de Forest

In five pages this paper celebrates the virtually unknown film and radio contributions of inventor Lee de Forest. Six sources are...

Movie Review of Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear

In six pages a plot synopsis of Scorsese's 1991 remake of Cape Fear is presented along with the argument that in addition to being...

Book and Film Versions of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath

In six pages this paper emphasizes class consciousness in a discussion of how class is portrayed during the Great Depression in St...

Hollywood vs. America by Michael Medved

In six pages this paper examines the conflict between Hollywood and popular culture as considered in the text by film critic Micha...

Film Noir's Spatial Strategies

In six pages this paper discusses spatial imagery and the visual contrasts offered by film noir. Eight sources are cited in the b...

The Tragic Hero in Carlito's Way and High Sierra

Carlito's Way and High Sierra both feature tragic, doomed anti-heroes and the path that led to their destruction. This research pa...

Latin America, China, and Changes Through Revolution or Reform

while the Nationalists were forced to retreat to the island of Formosa, now known as Taiwan. For Chairman Mao, revolution was onl...

The Last Emperor Film by Bernardo Bertolucci

related to this period, and some of the socio-political reasons for wanting Pu Yi to take the throne within the constructs of the ...

Comparing The Rainmaker Novel and Film

legal contemporaries, has grandiose dreams of landing for his firm "a client worth at least twenty million [and becoming] an insta...

Film, Theater, and Rhetoric

both about rhetoric and about the nature of its tradition. Further still, the true rhetoric of any age and of any people is to be...

Alfred Hitchcock, the Cinematic Suspense Master

In six pages this paper examines the cinematic mastery of film director Alfred Hitchcock and some of the techniques he employed th...

Cynicism, Romance, and Annie Hall by Director Woody Allen

In six pages this paper examines the themes of cynicism and romance within the context of this 1977 Academy Award winning film Ann...

An Analysis of the Film, American Beauty

troubled home life. To escape, Ricky retreated into his own world of drugs and voyeurism. Simply stated, American Beauty was an ...

Eat Drink Man Woman, To Live, and Survival of the Asian Family

This begins to change with the comment, "I have an announcement to make." Whatever follows is guaranteed to prompt anger and trial...

President Kennedy's Assassination According to Jim Garrison and Oliver Stone's 1991 Film JFK

(Garrison, 1988). Garrisons book chronicles his investigation into what was perhaps the most notable murder case in America. Gar...

Film Industry and Technology

Though the request for this paper was to focus on technology in film during the past 50 years, no paper on this would be complete...